Yeah, the first few times I saw them, they eschewed a fair chunk of the hits. (I'm actually in the music video for Better Than That, which they shot at Halifax's Victoria Theatre during an underplay show there.)
They are generally always reliable live - best I've seen them was the stripped back tour last year or '23, whichever one it was. They did York there, and that was terrific.
For festivals, they have started to get a little more straight up with the hits, but you only have to look at Glastonbury to know they like a curveball.
Stereophonics, conversely, like to play with a straight bat - and given that their stadium run this year seems to carry a nominal "greatest hits" tag, you'd assume no curveballs there either.
Really enjoying the new Sam Fender album, Crumbling Empire is probably my favourite track so far. Might be the headliner I'm most looking forward to, I think these songs will sound great in a festival setting.
Travis being a former headliner and getting the Other opening slot isnt really a demotion per say. Not as if the crowd wouldnt be huge. If they played Pyramid its gotta be like 3 or 4 pm.
Fifth full go-around and sober too.
I don't feel there's ever been too much made of the fact that, like any thirty-year-old Brit, he will have had some passing exposure to Oasis.
But Something Heavy and its strum pattern - not so much its lyrics - feels like it could have been a late-era Noel-led cut.